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EVA-AMI: Eptifibatide Equal to Abciximab for STEMI Patients Undergoing PCI
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The results will be reassuring to cath labs already substituting the cheaper GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor in STEMI patients, but at least one expert believes proof of equivalence for two GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors does not answer the question of whether these agents should be widely in use for STEMI patients. Heartwire
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Dr Adrian Kantrowitz, Inventor, Transplant Surgeon, Dies
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In more than 60 years of surgical practice, Kantrowitz is credited with performing the first heart transplant in the US, the second worldwide, as well as inventing the LVAD, IABP, and an early version of the implantable defibrillator. Heartwire
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